Boxing at the 1958 Asian Games

Boxing at the 1958 Asian Games
Venue	Korakuen Ice Palace
Dates	28–31 May
Competitors	62 from 11 nations
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The Boxing Tournament at the 1958 Asian Games was held in Korakuen Ice Palace, Tokyo, Japan from 28 to 31 May 1958. A total of 62 boxers from 11 nations competed.

The host nation dominated the competition winning six out of ten gold medals, South Korea, Burma and Republic of China (Taiwan) won the remaining gold medals.

Medalists[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Flyweight (51 kg)	Japan	Hla Nyunt	Ezaria Ilkhanoff  Iran
			South Korea
Bantamweight (54 kg)	Thein Myint	Japan	Muhammad Nasir  Pakistan
			Philippines
Featherweight (57 kg)	Japan	Philippines
			Song Soon-chun  South Korea
Lightweight (60 kg)	Chung Dong-hoon  South Korea	Shinichiro Suzuki  Japan	Celedonio Espinosa  Philippines
			India
Light welterweight (63.5 kg)	Japan	Vazik Kazarian  Iran	Sueb Chundakowsolaya  Thailand
			Kim Deuk-bong  South Korea
Welterweight (67 kg)	Kim Ki-soo  South Korea	Soren Pirjanian  Iran	Tongsai Teptani  Thailand
			Japan
Light middleweight (71 kg)	Osamu Takahashi  Japan	Amir Yavari  Iran	Bait Hussain  Pakistan
			Stanley Majid
Middleweight (75 kg)	Chang Lo-pu  Republic of China	India	Leon Khachatourian  Iran
			Japan
Light heavyweight (81 kg)	Japan	Sultan Mahmood  Pakistan	Akbar Khojini  Iran
			None awarded
Heavyweight (+81 kg)	Japan	Pakistan	None awarded
			None awarded

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	6	2	2	10
2	South Korea (KOR)	2	0	3	5
3	(BIR)	1	1	1	3
4	Republic of China (ROC)	1	0	0	1
5	Iran (IRN)	0	3	3	6
6	Pakistan (PAK)	0	2	2	4
7	Philippines (PHI)	0	1	2	3
8	India (IND)	0	1	1	2
9	Thailand (THA)	0	0	2	2
10	(SIN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		10	10	17	37

Participating nations[]

A total of 62 athletes from 11 nations competed in boxing at the 1958 Asian Games:

References[]

• Results

External links[]

• OCA official website